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Flirt blindness
Sep. 4th, 2011 11:24 pm BiCon is over, and I had 3 stickers on my name badge for flirt blindness. Just to make it clear.
Recently I read somewhere that if you're blind (in the conventional sense), that your brain makes up for the lack of incoming signals by just making up some random stuff. A similar thing is exploited by things like the "brain machine" - flashing lights in front of your eyes plus rhythmic sounds. It makes you see pretty moving patterns in various colours, which are certainly not real.
I connected this with flirt blindness. If you never see when somebody is flirting with you, apparently your brain tries to see flirting in "random other stuff". Hence, you may think that somebody is flirting with you, even when they aren't. Which is exactly my experience, but I just hadn't connected the different types of blindness yet.
Recently I read somewhere that if you're blind (in the conventional sense), that your brain makes up for the lack of incoming signals by just making up some random stuff. A similar thing is exploited by things like the "brain machine" - flashing lights in front of your eyes plus rhythmic sounds. It makes you see pretty moving patterns in various colours, which are certainly not real.
I connected this with flirt blindness. If you never see when somebody is flirting with you, apparently your brain tries to see flirting in "random other stuff". Hence, you may think that somebody is flirting with you, even when they aren't. Which is exactly my experience, but I just hadn't connected the different types of blindness yet.